Stanislaw Lem 
Highcastle [EPUB ebook] 

Sangharakshita has established a successful Buddhist movement, pioneering a living Buddhism that seems well suited to our times. Here Subhuti, one of his closest disciples, offers a comprehensive acc …

A collection of real-life stories from people who have improved their lives through better literacy.  Foreword by Scott Quinnell Some people take the power of words for granted. But for the thou …

An anthology of five of the best autobiographical narratives detailing black life in New England in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The volume is accompanied by Cottrol”s introduction, …

An in-depth study of Ma Xiangbo, one of the most prominent Catholic thinkers in modern China. …

With Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral (1773), Phillis Wheatley (1753? – 1784) became the first English-speaking person of African descent to publish a book and only the second woman-of …

Dr Chaloner considers economic history to be a branch of what the French call the historical sciences and believes that it is impossible to treat usefully of the rise, decline and metamorphosis of in …

M Cherif Bassiouni was a towering figure in international law. He was personally connected to some of the most historically relevant moments of the past century: the Suez War; the Camp David Accords; …

”Basu”s account of how Arthur Conan Doyle set about trying to get a pardon for Edalji is in itself a fine piece of detective work.” The Times ”Compulsive reading. ” A.N. Wilson ”Nails the nasti …

I am in my eighties and have enjoyed reading books all of my life. I believe that those of us who enjoy reading books should write one and this is mine.As a child growing up during the Second World W …